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Not quite the mythical Gorgon that would turn you to stone with one glance, but that fungi gall again, Gymnosporangium sp, but now more developed and in the throughs of spreading itself around.
I believe these are the telial horns, the spore tubes, and they are opening up and releasing spores.
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Excellent !!
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Thank you, Ted 🙂
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Now things happens! Great!
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🙂
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Thnks for this information, never seen this before 🙂
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We get wild cucumbers growing here that look remarkably similar to this gall.
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Great shots! Fascinating gall.
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Thank you 🙂 I find plant galls so interesting, especially as they have so many strange cycles.
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And you find many of them! I hardly see a few, but everybody has a different focus.
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Well, you’re getting quite mental now. Hahahahahaha. I love it! Superbly alien.
– Esme waving her brain snakes at him from upon the Cloud
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Many thanks, Esme! 🙂 I like getting mental occasionally 🙂
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Excellent shots with very good depth of field.
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Many thanks, David! With all those bits n bobs it can be quite a challenge to get the focus point right
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It looks like one of those spiny rubber playtoys for a dog!
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I will have to try sqeezing one to see if it sqeaks 😉
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The ‘telial horns’ sure sound mythical! ~that’s a marvellous ‘medusa’ 😀
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Thank you, Liz 🙂
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It’s starting to look more like what I see on our cedar. If it is a close relative it may become ball shaped with all those tubercles…or not. 🙂
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Yes, possibly. Amazing how nature has evolved to survive this way 🙂
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Aliens, again? No, seriously: This is absolutely fascinating. I’ve never seen something like it before.
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Yes, more aliens 😉 Nature keeps throwing up these surprises 🙂
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Wow! Like stepping into another world. Your photography is amazing Peter!
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I appreciate that, Julie, Thank you! 🙂 The natural world always has something new to show us 🙂
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